The 2013 Festival had record attendances, with over 200 people at some events.
The Family Day was the biggest yet, packed with activities, from marine life to Europe’s Lost World.
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Highlights from Events 2013
There was the story of exploration in the Arctic and in the depths of the sea, on Greenland’s glaciers and in the space probes pushing outwards through the…
Europe’s Lost World
Hunters with spears scan an ancient landscape that now lies beneath the waters of the North Sea. The search for the lost world of Doggerland was…
About Orkney
“Those soft green hills, the ledged sea-cliffs, the shallow lochs, those curving sweeps of sand… the story of them all can be traced back …”
Highlights from 2013 Family Day
This was the year when you could handle a meteorite and steer a Mars Rover, try out Stone Age technology and wear an Iron Age hood, join the Dustbin Detectives…
Broad Street Saturday
Broad Street in Kirkwall is the setting for some of the Saturday afternoon events in the annual Orkney International Science Festival. There is the Vintage Rally organised by Orkney Vintage Club…
Frontiers magazine
Frontiers is a new online magazine highlighting science and people. Our aim is to find fresh ways of viewing existing territory and to look out to new horizons to be explored.
Festival Updates
The dates for next year’s Orkney International Science Festival will be Thursday 4 to Wednesday 10 September 2014. We’ll be posting up in the near future a timetable of the various announcements of the programme, tickets online, and so on.
Festival Topics
We will also be featuring these and other topics in our new online magazine, Frontiers.
Latest News
It’s been attracting support from overseas as well as within the UK. It calls for recognition for the achievements of John Rae in solving the two great mysteries of 19th-century Arctic exploration. He found the last link in the Northwest Passage and discovered the fate of the Franklin expedition, but he never received full recognition for what he had accomplished.
The petition can be found here. There is more information on our News page.
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This was my very first visit to Orkney and therefore, my first exposure to the vibrant and exhilarating Science Festival. It was an incredible week – the Festival pulsated! It was far larger and far better supported than I would have thought possible.visitor from Edinburgh